Baltic NATO allies Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia can now transfer American-made lethal weapons such as anti-armor and ground-to-air missiles to Ukraine

In a third round of diplomacy on Eastern European security this week, Kremlin officials sounded an increasingly pessimistic note, though they did not close the door on future talks

Russia said on Sunday it would not make concessions under U.S. pressure and warned that this week's talks on the Ukraine crisis might end early, while Washington said no breakthroughs were expected and progress depended on de-escalation from Moscow

House intelligence chair: invasion might draw Nato closer Sanctions must be ‘at level Russia has never seen’ to deter Putin

Russian president’s attention-seeking diplomatic demands speak to long-held grievances

If confirmed, talks would begin a contentious effort to avert a Russian offensive in Ukraine this winter

Would Putin get away with invading Ukraine again?

Tensions have been rising again along the Russian-Ukrainian border, with Kyiv and Washington raising the alarm at what they say is an unusual build-up of Russian troops

The Kremlin said it was "not exactly polite" of the US to accuse Russia of unusual military activity near Ukraine after Washington brought in American soldiers from overseas

The head of Nato has urged Russia to be transparent about its military plans after an increase in the numbers of troops on its border with Ukraine

The buildup of Russian troops on the country’s border with Ukraine over the past week has raised concerns among officials in the U.S. and Europe

Over the past day, October 10, ten ceasefire violations by Russian-occupation troops were recorded in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) in eastern Ukraine

The press service of the community adds that law enforcement agencies are currently working at the scene

UEFA HAS DEMANDED that Ukraine make changes to their jersey for Euro 2020 to remove a “political” slogan that sparked protests from Russia

Ukraine’s president is claiming that Russia has maintained a massive military presence near his country’s borders

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy extended sanctions against companies and politicians blamed by Kyiv for involvement in Russian aggression against Ukraine

The Ukrainian side shared its lists in the winter

Vilnius will never recognize Russia’s occupation of part of Ukraine’s territory and will make efforts to de-occupy these territories

Russia on Saturday said it would expel a Ukrainian diplomat, prompting an immediate pledge of retaliation from Kyiv, further escalating tensions over Moscow's troop build-up on Ukraine's eastern flank.

He called on Russia to "deescalate tensions," the White House said in a summary of the conversation

Volodymyr Zelenskiy's visit came after reports of increased clashes with separatist forces and rising tensions with Russia.

Pro-Russian separatists have deployed more troops near the demarcation line defined in the Minsk agreement in eastern Ukraine

The Pentagon appears to be making good on Washington's pledge to help Ukraine stand up to what the United States has described as "Russian aggression."

The Moscow City Court on December 7 found Vasyl Vasylenko guilty of spying and sentenced him the same day.

Ukraine also cites facts that may indicate the control of the aggressor country over the occupied territory

Thus, Russians will try to let water from the Dnipro flow into the North Crimean Canal

Putin has forced Ukrainians to make a choice. Will they finally take a stand?

Ukraine has also recalled Russia must implement its obligations under the Minsk Agreements

Ukraine's memorandum in the case of the seizure of Ukrainian sailors and ships in the Black Sea in November 2018 has been signed and will be submitted to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on Friday, May 22

The global outreach of Russia’s manipulation of international and domestic law

Despite many official pronouncements, industry in the liberated Donbas is in its death throes

Russian-Ukrainian relations, increasingly tense since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, plummeted to a new low after Russia’s forcible absorption of the Crimean Peninsula in March 2014 and subsequent invasion of Donbas

What crimes Russia has committed during the occupation of Crimea and is still committing on the peninsula

What is Ukraine’s place in the rhetoric of Russian media and how to decipher their hidden messages?

The self-proclaimed republics in occupied Donbas are changing their rhetoric about returning to Ukraine and are more actively imposing the attributes of a statelet...

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian chargé d’affaires ad interim in Kyiv on Monday and expressed protest over the detention of four Ukrainian fishermen

What the Russian authorities can do to preserve the current regime

A Ukrainian journalist convicted in Russia of spying and jailed for three years has described how he created paintings of cathedrals, lighthouses and soothing landscapes as a form of psychological therapy during his imprisonment

What criteria should be used to evaluate strategies for the reintegration of the Donbas

A court hearing in Poland on whether to extradite a Ukrainian veteran of the ongoing Donbas conflict and member of a Ukrainian nationalist group is expected to begin by Nov. 12

Adventures of signing the Ukrainian-Russian Treaty of friendship, cooperation and partnership

U.S. special envoy to Ukraine resigns a day after whistleblower complaint was released

Open supporters of integration with Russia are being persecuted on the occupied Donbas

Roots of Moscow’s imperialist policy in Ukraine and Ukrainians’ participation in the creation of imperial Russia

The Ukrainian Week talked with U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations on prospects for the release of Ukrainian prisoners, the specifics of negotiations with the Russia and options for resolving the conflict in the Donbas

For participation in illegal armed formation, assisting Russia's occupation of Crimea

The U.S. called on Russia to release jailed Ukrainian sailors and enable a prisoner exchange, U.S. State Department Special Representative Kurt Volker told reporters in Kyiv

The press center of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported

The Russian side already tried to gather a council meeting on the law on Volodymyr Zelenskiy's inauguration day on May 20

Russia-backed separatists from Ukraine's eastern Donbas region have released four Ukrainian citizens, who have been flown to the Belarusian capital, Minsk

During the 12th Kyiv Security Forum The Ukrainian Week met with the American publicist and researcher of Russian policy, Brian Whitmore, to discuss the future steps of Moscow in Ukraine and in the world, as well as details of the Kremlin's strategy for the West

Potential Russian courses of action in Venezuela based on the experience of Ukraine and Syria

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko stated this

Why sympathy with Russia is a threat for Ukraine and how it can be diminished

The female soldier, Yana Chernova, had "no chance of surviving in this hell," according to the Donbas Battalion commander

Ukrainian voters residing in Russia will be able to vote in the presidential election only by travelling to another country, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said

The convoy was spotted in Russia's Rostov region

What national unity hinges on and what, besides Russia, threatens Ukraine

Russia may hand over 24 Ukrainian navy sailors seized off the coast of Crimea as part of a prisoner swap deal with Ukraine later this year, the pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper cited a highly-placed Russian diplomatic source

The latest task by their Russian curators was to create and further guide clandestine activities aimed at sabotage in the Ochakiv district

Lawyer: It will depend on the "political situation and the political will of the Kremlin"

Why is there lack of understanding of character of conflict between Russia and Western world

Ukraine's president on Monday announced a partial call-up of reservists for training amid tensions with Russia

Ukraine will not allow Russian men aged 16-60 into the country following the imposition of martial law, Kyiv says

The Russian Federation Council has warned Ukraine it is able to close the Sea of ​​Azov to the Ukrainian ships within minutes

Moscow move affecting 322 people comes after Ukraine targeted Russian officials and businesses earlier this year

During the 28th Economic Forum in Krynica-Zdrój (Poland) The Ukrainian Week discussed with the President of the Center for the Study of New Generation Warfare about the situation in the Black Sea and the historical and modern aspects of the confrontation between the USA and Russia.

Russian propaganda systemically lowers the number of officially recognized casualties on the part of Russian occupation forces in eastern Ukraine's warzone

Current state and plans in Ukraine’s defense industry

Verkhovna Rada Vice-Speaker on re-balancing power in Ukraine, the effect of the Minsk process, and occupied territories

How elections in the Donbas usually play out

Why is Russia rushing to put an end to the warlords in its self-proclaimed republics in occupied Donbas?

The Ukrainian Week polls the military, officials and politicians about the prospects for a longterm ceasefire

OSCE Special Monitoring Mission Spokesperson on its mandate and tasks in Ukraine

The direction taken by Crimea's economy destroys its self-sufficiency and makes reintegration into Ukraine exceedingly difficult

The interests and prejudices of officials and diplomats from the UN, OSCE, Council of Europe and other international agencies sometimes affect policy decisions more than they should

It is much easier to take the approach of multiple narratives than to accept that one side is right and the other wrong

Ukrainian victories in the East

The Ukrainian Week spoke with Raimonds Vejonis, the newly-elected President of the Republic of Latvia and Minister of Defense when this interview was made, about NATO revival, the "deterrent effect," Putin's unpredictability, and the cost of the conflict in Ukraine to Riga

The first speaker of the Seimas of the independent Lithuania and EMP until recently on the way Europe is changing its perception of Russia, the shifting "center of Europeanness", and why it is crucial for Ukrainians to resist disenchantment

The annexation of Crimea from December 2, 2013, through April 4, 2014

Why is Russia so persistently aggressing on Ukraine?

President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in exile, Akhmed Zakayev, talks to The Ukrainian Week about what Kadyrovites want in the Donbas, the December clashes in Grozny and Makhachkali as an extension of the Russo-Chechen war that has gone on with varying intensity for nearly 25 years now, the illusory friendship of Vladimir Putin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, and the coming of ISIL to the Northern Caucasus.

Why it will fail sooner than the Russian leader expects

Ex-Minister of Defence shares his views on the recent developments in Eastern Ukraine with The Ukrainian Week

Why Ukrainians still view aggressors as "friends" and "brothers"

At night on July 16, the militants shelled anti-terrorist operation forces four times, reports Dmytro Tymchuk, coordinator of the Military and Political Research Center

A cluster of the Russian military was detected near the village of Heivka, Stanychno-Luhansk County, Luhansk Oblast, 3 km from the Russian border on the Ukrainian territory, on July 12, National Security and Defence Council info-center spokesperson Andriy Lysenko reports

What can Putin hope to achieve at this stage? In terms of gains, there are two potentially lasting effects of this aggression that could play into his hands

The Ukrainian Week talks to Roderick Parkes, EU programme coordinator at the Polish Institute of International Affairs, about how united the EU is on resisting Russia, Germany’s idea of federalization, and how the current crisis has impacted the relations between Germany and Poland

To defeat the new Fascism will take an immense amount of the concentration of courage, political will and commitment not only in the West and Ukraine but in Russia itself as well

Nearly 20 terrorists were killed and 4 detained during the shooting between Ukrainian police and military and separatists, Arsen Avakov, Ukraine’s Interior Minister, wrote on his Facebook page. Ukrainian law enforcers have lost 1 man, 5 wounded

Checkpoints and barricades made out of tires have been installed on the highways of Donetsk region. In the cities administrative buildings have been seized. Groups of masked men armed with sticks and bats control the roads and search the passing transport. Using crowds of civilians as a shield "the little green men" capture Ukrainian armored vehicles

Said Ismagilov, the Mufti of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Ukraine Ummah: “The status of Muslims here is far better than in Russia”

Russian aggression in Crimea reveals interesting aspects of using criminal groups in politics

Russian military aggression has recently become a constant threat, while the Western powers are failing to fulfil the security guarantees they extended to Ukraine under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. The issue of nuclear or other similarly effective weapons with which to defend Ukraine’s borders is again high on the agenda

How pro-Russian forces are trying to fill the emptiness created by the fall of Yanukovych

How Ukraine should tackle lustration, skeletons in the closets of its new government and tools that could help it not lose the war

Viktor Chumak, MP, Head of the Parliamentary Committee for Fighting Corruption and Organized Crime and Major General of Justice, who served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Border Service for over 20 years, talks to The Ukrainian Week about Ukraine’s defence capability, ways to localize Russian aggression and protection of Ukraine’s eastern borders